Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit :
quoted text > On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote:
>
>> Clint Pachl a icrit :
>>> Ronnie Garcia wrote:
>>>> Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF
>>>> anabled) ?
>>>> I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines
>>>> pf.conf
>>> What is your packets/sec when your pushing 40Mbs? Does the traffic
>>> flow in one em and out the other or is the dual em in a trunk (i.e.
>>> 2Gbs)?
>>
>> Traffic gets in one em, is filtered by pf, and gets out from the other
>> em (and the other way around).
>> Its doing 11kpps in and 6kpps out of each em, plus 7kpps on the pfsync
>> interface, which is a sis
>
> This brings up a question I have had for a while. Does pfsync generate
> enough traffic that running gigabit cards for your $ext_if and $int_if
> and a 100base-TX card for your pfsync interface cause a major bottleneck?
It depends on the rate of the states changes.
Here, we have ~30mbits on pfsync, for ~40mbits of traffic (!)
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Ronnie Garcia <r.garcia at ovea dot com>
